external hard drive windows

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external hard drive windows

I am a long time mac user who never used bootcamp, but now with windows 10 and some games i really want to play with my friends i ordered an external hard drive and wanted to ask. could i run bootcamp on my ssd but access the hard drive from windows and install the games on it?

i am pretty sure i can access it but not sure . (btw i do not mean install windows on external hard drive i know thats impossible).

thank you for the help and have a lovely day!

btw i don't think it matters but just in case: i am using OS X 10.11 el capitan

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Jul 31, 2015 6:04 PM

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Rudegar

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Aug 1, 2015 12:36 AM in response to Matan Rak

yeah windows has no problems installing games on other drives then the main one

though with steam games you need to change where steam default install it's games and fix that

as you can't choose install path and you cant move the already installed games

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Aug 1, 2015 4:32 AM in response to Rudegar

Could i partition the drive and use one half of it with windows and the other to backup my mac with time machine?

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Rudegar

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Aug 1, 2015 4:40 AM in response to Matan Rak

unless time machine has a problem with not having access to the whole disk it should be transparent for both OS X and windows they just see volumes / partitions

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